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Nationalizing Sex - Fertility, Fear, and Power (Hardcover)
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Nationalizing Sex - Fertility, Fear, and Power (Hardcover)
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Government sponsored breeding programs, medals of motherhood,
forced abortions, and surgical sterilization on park benches-all of
these policies have come out of government efforts to nationalize
sex and harness procreation as a tool of the state. Over 170
countries (or 85% of governments) worldwide have active policies
designed to manipulate the fertility of their citizenry with the
aim of influencing the rate of growth of their populations. While
over 90% of least developed states are trying to combat population
growth with policies designed to reduce fertility, over two-thirds
of all developed countries are actively crafting legislation to
increase their populations. Despite over a hundred years of
relative failure and innumerable studies questioning the viability
and utility of government attempts to manipulate the fertility rate
of the population as a whole, the majority of governments worldwide
continue to uphold and develop such policies. What drives
government to try to control how many children people will have?
Nationalizing Sex traces why population emerged as an object of
governance and how natalist policy has changed over time and place,
using case studies from France, Germany, Russia, India, and China.
It analyzes the origins, growth, and development of fertility as a
national and international political issue, the rise and fall of
the narratives used to ascribe meaning to natality, and the global
proliferation of oddly similar policies adopted by widely
dissimilar states. As importantly, it explains why, after hundreds
of years, countries continue to pursue natalist policy even though
it has been such a widespread failure.
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